An unabashed celebration of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll (onscreen and off), Easy Rider heralded a heady decade in which a rebellious wave of talented young filmmakers invigorated the movie industry. But ''Easy Riders, Raging Bulls'' views even its heroes (Scorsese, Coppola, Ashby) with considerable ambivalence. and more a gossipy, vindictive, and mean spirited expose of how terrible all those people where at all times...the whole book seems petty and dishonest. There was no cocaine before Easy Rider on the street. This book allowed me to indulge in that passion whilst still retaining literary respectability on the bus. He is a contributor to Vanity Fair and was formerly the executive editor of Premiere magazine. Based on hundreds of interviews with the directors themselves, producers, stars, agents, writers, studio executives, spouses, and ex-spouses, this … It isn't much of a critical analysis, but it covers who got these movies made and how, and more importantly, how it all died out. Easy Riders, Raging Bulls is about the 1960s and 1970s Hollywood, a period of American film known for the production of such films such as The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, Chinatown, Taxi Driver, Jaws, Star Wars, The Exorcist, and The Last Picture Show. This was an age when talented young filmmakers such as Scorsese, Coppola, and Spielberg, along with a new breed of actors, including De Niro, Pacino, and Nicholson, became the powerful figures who would make such modern classics as The Godfather, Chinatown, Taxi Driver, and Jaws. Hard to take anything at face value. A handful of mavericks dream of breaking the studios' stranglehold, of making Art that will be screened across the world, but they are beguiled by mountains of cash and their own megalomania and by the time Star Wars hits, they're finished. This is not a book about filmmaking. There are no discussion topics on this book yet. It … However, I do appreciate how Biskind refuses to coddle and praise this generation the way most authors and documentarians do. Then within the last five pages he asks himself: "Could another group of directors have done it differently, broken the back of studio power, created little islands of self-sufficiency that would have supported them in the work they wanted to do? MARTIN SCORSESE ON DRUGS: "I did a lot of drugs because I wanted to do a lot, I wanted to push all the way to the very very end, and see if I could die." Tell us what you like and we'll recommend books you'll love. *** from **** Entdecke alle Informationen über Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the … An unabashed celebration of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll (onscreen and off), Easy Rider heralded a heady decade in which a rebellious wave of talented young filmmakers invigorated the movie ind… Digital products purchased from this site are sold by Simon & Schuster Digital Sales Inc. Don't miss our eBook deals starting at $0.99! Taking you through classic pictures and how they were made. The effort and struggle between the end of the old hollywood and the beginning of the new hollywood directors and studios, pushing to make movies like Bonnie and Clyde, Jaws, Apocolypse Now, The Godfather and Starwars is an incredible read show more Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood is an amazing book. Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. Taking you through classic pictures and how they were made. Haunting of the Innocent- Die Wurzeln des Schreckens … And if everything in this book is to be believed then filmmakers are some of the worst people there are and they are all lucky to have lived past the age of 40. We’ve got your back. But learning to make a movie is totally different.”, “Watching Nicholson talking Towne was like listening to Bob Dylan playing with the Band.”. Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood Peter Biskind. Easy Riders, Raging Bulls... is a look at 1970s Hollywood when it was known as New Hollywood, and the director was the star of the movie. In 1969, a low-budget biker movie, Easy Rider, shocked Hollywood with its stunning success. As if I should already be staggering around the garden, entertaining grandchildren with pieces of orange in my mouth. Peter Biskind's Easy Riders/Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood was one of the most entertaining movie books to come along in years. Plus, receive recommendations and exclusive offers on all of your favorite books and authors from Simon & Schuster. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read Easy Riders Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-And Rock 'N Roll Generation Save. Easy Riders, Raging Bulls . Biskind also gets lost reporting lurid details of decadence among the Hollywood hippies during this time, which have a sleazy appeal but ultimately adds up to dated gossip. Easy Riders, Raging Bulls meticulously outlines the advent of a new brand of iconoclastic auteurs who overthrew the big production houses to breathe new life into the biggest film industry on the planet. The book tells the story of how Taxi Driver, Bonnie and Clyde, Easy Rider, The Godfather and their ilk were made, and how they changed both Hollywood and the world outside of it. It isn't much of a critical analysis, but it covers who got these movies made and how, and more importantly, how it all died out. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. In Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, Peter Biskind takes us on the wild ride that was Hollywood in the '70s, an era that produced such modern classics as The Godfather, Chinatown, Shampoo, Nashville, Taxi Driver, and Jaws. Leider ist Easy Riders, Raging Bulls derzeit bei keinem der auf Moviepilot aufgelisteten Anbietern zu sehen. Peter Biskind is a cultural critic and film historian. Any use of an author photo must include its respective photo credit. While it's a damn entertaining read, Biskind gets some of his facts wrong, making most of this book suspect as a work chronicling the history of the generation of movie brats that revolutionized Hollywood in the late sixties through the early eighties. For those not well versed but interested in one of cinema’s greatest eras this will certainly be a more interesting and engaging watch. Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: Dokumentarfilm/Kunst- & Kultur-Doku/Film-Doku 2002 von Rachel Talbot/Kenneth Bowser mit Mardik Martin/Peter Fonda/Sylvia Miles. Don't get me wrong, it's not that I believe that these people are saints that should be above all criticism, it's that the writing and the editing of this book is so focused on telling you how drug a. And if everything in this book is to be believed then filmmakers are some of the worst people there are and they are all lucky to have lived past the age of 40. This book allowed me to indulge in that passion whilst still retaining literary respectability on the bus. that took over Hollywood were heroes, eschewing conventional tastes, embracing artistic techniques more commonly found in European art cinema than Hollywood programmers and foll, Raucous, kaleidoscopic portrait of New Hollywood in the ‘70s, when a fresh generation of ambitious young directors obliterated the studio system. However much is true, however much really happened that way, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How The Sex 'N' Drugs 'N' Rock 'N' Generation Saved Hollywood by Peter Biskind remains one of my favorite non-fiction reads. In the opening pages of EASY RIDERS, RAGING BULLS: HOW THE … Easy Riders, Raging Bulls vividly chronicles the exuberance and excess of the times: the startling success of Easy Rider and the equally alarming … One thing that niggled was that although there are copious references to drug taking and bad behaviour, there's probably a lot of sexual assault stuff that got left out (James Toback's name pops up now and then and we all know what people are saying about him now) so it's not entirely warts and all. Easy Riders, Raging Bulls Peter Biskind A stone-cold classic from the moment it arrived in 1998. © 2021 Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved. When the low-budget biker movie Easy Rider shocked Hollywood with its success in 1969, a new Hollywood era was born. Easy Riders, Raging Bulls. You can say Peter Biskind is being a jerk to the generation of filmmakers who revolutionized Hollywood in the 1970s with this gossipy, mean yet thorough retelling of the rise and crash of "The New Hollywood" or you could argue that this group of boy geniuses pretty much got what they deserved as a group of young artists given too much too fast who lost it and ruined others in the process through their own greed and arrogance. It's hilarious, outrageous, and sometimes tragic - but guaranteed never boring. DVD. Most movie books are about the actors we see on-screen; this one paints a detailed picture of the up-and-coming directors from the late 1960s to the mid-1980s. by Simon Schuster. Honestly, I couldn't finish this book. This down-and-dirty romp through Hollywood in the 1970s introduces the young filmmakers--Coppola, Scorsese, Lucas, Spielberg, Altman, and Beatty--and recreates an era that transformed American culture forever. He is a contributor to Vanity Fair and was formerly the executive editor of Premiere magazine. How he got an interview with producer Bert Schneider is beyond my comprehension -- the guy is a total recluse, and one of the most fascinating figures in Hollywood history. For those not well versed but interested in one of cinema’s greatest eras this will certainly be a more interesting and engaging watch. Kostenlose Lieferung für viele Artikel! I always wonder how this book ever got published, because I don't think there's anything good in it about any of the directors and actors highlighted therein. I didn’t really factor the archival material not shot explicitly for Riders into my grade. How he got an interview with producer Bert Schneider is beyond my comprehension -- the guy is a total recluse, and one of the most fascinating figures in Hollywood history. Easy Riders, Raging Bulls was the basis of a documentary film of the same name. GEORGE LUCAS ON STAR WARS: "Popcorn pictures have always ruled. Doesn't mean it couldn't have been a better book (there are times when. It pretty much read like a teen scream gossip rag. This book was poorly written, to say the least. To see what your friends thought of this book. Biskind's book disappointed me tremendously. Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood ein Film von Kenneth Bowser. Casts a wide enough net to get a general sense of the era but it's a house of cards built on a lot of he said she said. I felt guilty reading it, like I was investing too much time in something not worthy of it. Raucous, kaleidoscopic portrait of New Hollywood in the ‘70s, when a fresh generation of ambitious young directors obliterated the studio system. 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